Where to get BeautifulSoup--www.crummy.com appears to be down.

[Mike Driscoll]

On Apr 24, 1:34 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> Paul Boddie <p... at boddie.org.uk> writes:
> > simple Python-only modules, all you'd really need to do to prove the
> > concept is to develop the client-side Windows software (eg. apt-get
> > for Windows) which downloads package lists, verifies signatures, and
> > works out where to put the package contents. ...
>
> I thought the Windows "solution" to this was Authenticode, which is a
> scheme for signing executables against certificates similar to those
> used on SSL web sites.  Of course there's been at least one notorious
> forgery, but typical Linux distro repositories are probably not all
> that secure either.
>
> In the case of a pure Python program like Beautiful Soup, I certainly
> think any installation needing running code should be done by
> distutils included in the Python distro.

I only create binaries using the bdist_wininst or bdist_msi commands
for the extensions. If you think adding a code signature will make the
binaries more acceptable, I'm not against it. Certificates from Comodo
don't cost too much...

Mike